Questions tagged [address]

This tag should be used for Bitcoin addresses. A Bitcoin address is an encoding of the hash of an ECDSA public key or a script. Knowledge of this value allows a user to send Bitcoins to another person over the network. Bitcoin addresses begin with a '1', '3', or 'bc1'. Not to be confused with mailing addresses or IP addresses.

I want to extract output addresses from tx messages in any bitcoin pcap.
currently, i extract tx messages which it's output script starts with "0x76" or "0xA9", but i don't know how can i extract the ...

I'm slowly getting educated about how the blockchain and Bitcoin addresses work. I now understand why it is more secure to use a different Bitcoin address for every transaction you make but I'm now ...

So after searching for HOURS on here and overall on the internet, I haven't managed to find an answer to my question so I'll ask here.
So I've been trying to convert a public key into an address. I'...

The process of encoding a public key is very clear and explained here https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Technical_background_of_version_1_Bitcoin_addresses
I am looking for the other way around: how to get ...

When running a bitcoin node on an enterprise level: a lot of addresses will be generated with getaddress RPC for users to send their funds to. As far as I understand, these addresses, as well as the ...

As i've read on many websites and papers, the bitcoin address is made by hashing the public key. And i've read that that's done because we don't want the public key to be public until money is spent.
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I like to start a new project on bitcoin. My project is creating a web based bitcoin wallet. I planing that to run the bitcoind on single VPS and use RPC for doing wallet operations. I planning that ...

so I recently created an account on freebitco.in, a website that gives you the chance to receive small amounts of BC every hour, and it gave me a BitCoin Address. I was wondering, where would I go to ...

Could you help me understand if with segwit activated do we have more available private keys and addresses in the Bitcoin universe?
With Legacy [1...], Compatible [3...] and Bech32 [bc1...] addresses ...

I am new to bitcoin. I've read multiple articles and posts on forums and unfortunately I haven't found the answer I am looking for.
Some back story...
I just bought a 2TB SSD storage, and installed ...

Alice owns three addresses A1, A2, A3. She decides to collect the coins held by these addresses into a single coin so she generates a fresh new address A4 for that.
She has the following two options:
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currently im facing with 1 issue that i need to convert all my litecoin address in my fullnode to legacy address (prefix with "M"). Im know that we have a tool https://litecoin-project.github.io/p2sh-...

In www.antpool.com Bitcoin mining pool, when we want to set up a Bitcoin address to which the reward will be sent, there are 2 options: BTC address (Bitcoin) and BCH address (Bitcoin Cash). But the ...

I created a wallet by Bitcoin.com Wallet application for Windows. And then I generated 3 BTC addresses for this wallet.
I then exported this wallet using Export Wallet and and chose File/Text option, ...

I'm using private libbitcoin server and libbitcoin explorer.
When I use bx fetxh-transaction, it returns something like:
I'm trying to figure out, how to get right address from address_hash.
When I ...

I want to watch a set of BitCoin addresses and be notified (preferably by email) when they receive a payment.
I prefer me not to write my own software for this and not to install it on my own server, ...

I sent a little money to this address 19RTgakS1WZP172vZwn44HnJAKU8ZQcJxm and they said that this link was allready used by someone else. Now he is saying the bitcoins were sent to no one and that they'...